In Android, I need to make an App icon as like a watch. That icon shows Seconds, Minute and hour lines as per system current time. All lines are moved as per the current time. Means runnable icon like a real watch. Like as per the given image.
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1[Widgets](https://developer.android.com/design/patterns/widgets.html) – sanemars Apr 12 '18 at 05:31
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as above: `widgets`, but forget about the change every single second – pskink Apr 12 '18 at 05:36
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Yes, pskink I know there is static icon is possible. But, I need to change it every second. – Hemant N. Karmur Apr 12 '18 at 05:38
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1You are talking about like Apple clock icon, in Android its not possible with default launchers – karanatwal.github.io Apr 12 '18 at 05:39
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1there is no way to have a dynamic *icon*. You can only make a widget. – Vladyslav Matviienko Apr 12 '18 at 05:42
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than change it every minute, forget about one second update – pskink Apr 12 '18 at 05:42
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any solution you got? – Nikunj Paradva Dec 03 '18 at 08:57
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Unfortunately, it's not possible for third party apps, as the app you are referring to is a native Samsung app in which Samsung will have the ability to do whatever it wants regarding it, and will have the ability to control the home screen as it wants, but for third party apps and as a general case you can only provide one app icon, and as mentioned here in this fulfill answer it can happen only in a certain way and under certain conditions in only small amount of cases:
I seem to recall that somebody has a GitHub project that tries to wrap the proprietary APIs of various home screens. IIRC, some supported capabilities included either replacing the app icon or adding a badge (e.g., unread message count). However:
- Only a small percentage of devices will support those proprietary APIs
- Undocumented and unsupported APIs, discovered through reverse-engineering apps, are subject to change and may break in
unexpected ways
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Using app icon you didn't achieve what you want.for this functionality, you need to create Android widget.how to create a widget and how to add into widget list for that you need to do RnD on it.
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